Author: Charlotte & Floris

To ensure you receive your deliveries in time for Christmas please be aware of the following dates:

WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM

For orders placed after midnight of the 16th of December we can not guarantee delivery before Christmas.

After this date it is best to contact us before placing your order and check availability of products. We can then also advise you about any postage options available to get your order delivered before Christmas.

We will receive one more stock resupply before Christmas and orders from this resupply will be shipped on the 20th & 21st of December.

EUROPEAN UNIONFor orders placed after midnight of the 9th of December we can not guarantee delivery before Christmas.

Please note! Our offices will be closed from 5pm Friday 21st December and we will return to work on Tuesday 1st January 9am.

We will not be able to reply to any queries or process any orders during that time. If your query is extremely urgent please call us on 01373 827910 and leave a message and we will get back to you as soon as we return to work.

Please be patient in that first week back, we will have an extra weeks worth of orders to process and emails to get through, which may take us most of the week to do, only if it is urgent should you call us please to allow us the time to get through the queries and order processing.

Christmas 2018 Shop Opening Times

Saturday the 22nd of December – 10am until 4pm (for last minute order collections)

The shop will be closed on the 24th – 25th – 26th – 27th – 28th of December

Normal opening times on Saturday the 29th of December (10am to 4pm)

We will be closed on Monday the 31st of December

Thanks for all your support throughout the year and the THW team wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

These miniatures are supplied unpainted and require assembly – we recommend using Citadel Glue and Paints.

Please note this item is limited for launch. Once the Pre-Order stock level has reached zero it means we have sold our ordered stock and will not be getting any more until after the release date.

Because of the limited stock quantity of the Grand Master Edition we have made the difficult decision to limit this product to one (1) set per order.

You can also order the Adeptus Titanicus Rules Set. This box comes with the full hardback comprehensive rulebook and accessories for Adeptus Titanicus, Including Command Terminals, Battlefield Assets and all the dice needed!

If you are ready to expand your Titan Legion then why not grab yourself the Warlord or Imperial Questoris Knights sets to bolster your Adeptus Titanicus force.

To finish off the releases you can also fill out the battlefield with two new sets of scenery specially designed in the scale of Adeptus Titanicus.

Please note these items are limited for launch. Once the Pre-Order stock level has reached zero it means we have sold our ordered stock and will not be getting any more until after the release date. You can still order the item and it will be marked with an Out of Stock message in your shopping basket. We will fulfil your order as soon as we are able after the release date.

The Grand Master Edition has very limited stock and has therefore been restricted to one (1) set per order and will not be available on back-order.

Can you believe that our team of enthusiastic hobbyists has been organizing Sunday events for two years now? It all started in May of 2016 with humble beginnings, three tables and a handful of eager players ready for a few games of Warhammer 40,000. For the first eighteen months the Gaming Sunday took place on the last Sunday of the month and in January of this year we shook things up by moving to the first Sunday. Since that day in May ’16 we have had a total of 29 fun filled days of gaming (we added in an extra day during the summer and Christmas holidays of 2016 and one for the Worldwide Warhammer 40,000 campaign).

While Warhammer 40,000 has always been the most popular game, there have been many varied games played. People have played games of Age of Sigmar, Blood Bowl, X-Wing, Bolt Action, Shadespire, Kill Team, Konflikt ’47, Star Wars Legion and Warhammer Quest. That last one was especially fun, with two teams of 4 players each trying to be the first to make their way to the final room. Most Gaming Sundays have been free for all to decide what games to play, with a few exceptions. There was the Warhammer Quest day mentioned above and we have held a Kill Team day. We also actively took part in the latest Warhammer 40,000 worldwide campaign with games played being recorded on the campaign website.

As stated earlier, the first session we only had three tables. This number has grown over the months and we can now cater for up to 16 players with enough scenery to fill eight tables. Even that has not been enough on a few occasions. The other thing that has been a problem is not knowing what games people want to play on each day. This has unfortunately caused people to not always be able to get a game or just one after a long wait for table space. Some days we have had over 20 people with a lot of standing round because there are not enough tables and other days we only had six people with armies for different games and long waits because there are not enough opponents. These have all been things we are keen to improve on and we have a plan.

We have been experimenting with various lay-outs for the room to try and get as many tables in as possible and learned valuable lessons with each Gaming Sunday. We will be taking a break during the summer months to improve the tables and will come back towards the end of the year with a new format for the Gaming Sunday that we think will be very exciting for everybody attending.

Sigmar 2.0 is on its way and that means it’s the perfect time to go back and revisit an army that never made it to the table. Flesh-Eater Courts have a great back story and more importantly the Terrorgheist! So using the Start Collecting box I built up a core force and added from there.

Ghouls can grab and hold objectives, while the Terrorgheist with an escort of Crypt Flayers can swoop down and take the fight to the enemy. As magic will be important with endless spells and new spells, my Infernal Courtier has the command trait Dark Wizardry so I converted a Ghoul king to represent my Generals upgraded abilities.

With the new edition bringing in more focus on the realms I decided for to base them to match one of Shyish’s deserts. To further this theme I decided to have my units look like they have been lying in ambush for prey. While increasing unit sizes and adding more courtiers for expansion is my current plan let’s see where the new edition takes us.

Ah, Age of Sigmar. To think, when you debuted, I was one of the people that decried you and sold off all my models in a huff because they’d “ruined” the game. Now I’m painting up a second army for the second edition, and times have changed oh so much…

I’ve always, always, ALWAYS played Chaos in Fantasy – and how could I not? Massive armoured vikings backed up by Daemons, Dragon Ogres (oh wait, “Ogors”), and all other manner of nightmare fuel is exactly what dark fantasy is all about for me. The fact that their characters are nigh-unstoppable murder machines may also have been a factor. But for this new version of the game, I fancied a bit of a change, and what’s as different as you can get from plate wearing bearded muscle men? Half-dressed lady ninjas. Enter my Daughters of Khaine.

Happily I’m not having to stray too far from the darker bits of fluff that pulled me to Chaos (choosing a faction that sacrifices hearts to the Murder God helps with that). I still get an incredibly predatory look on all of my models. Just look at the basic Witch Aelf – every angle on them screams “KILL!”. And of course, the wonderfully monstrous gorgon units, my favourite being the Bloodwrack Medusa from the Bloodwrack Shrine kit, seen here in my corn snake-inspired scheme.

I’m a massive fan of painting as a factor for choosing my army, so doing something bright and colourful on such a small frame is a good challenge and contrast to my usual dark and bulky forces like Deathwatch or Goliath gangers.

For a total of 990
I’m hoping the new General’s Handbook will give me just 10pts more to spend – the last 20pts would give me space to add in the Quicksilver Swords endless spell from Malign Sorcery. It’s such a beautiful little piece of model, and it gives me an excuse to shriek “I CAST KNIFE!” whenever I use it.

My next step is going to be adding Morathi and the Medusa up there into the force for a push to 2k, but I promised myself I’d not do that until all of this was finished.

If you are reading this then, like me, you will be excited about the new edition of Warhammer Age of Sigmar that will be released on the 30th of June. The temptation to start a new army will be big (and who can blame you?), I am thinking about building an army centered around the Stormcast Eternals that come inside the new core game. However I don’t want to have to put painting miniatures on hold while I wait for the game to be released. So what to do? A small 1000 point army obviously. By doing this I will something to do until launch weekend and I will have an army ready to play some games with the new rules before I have build and painted all those gorgeous looking new Stormcast Eternals.

In the past I have had a number of Age of Sigmar armies and when choosing a new force to collect I try to avoid repeating myself (I have had a Stormcast Eternals army in the past but, as they say, exceptions make the rule). The Seraphon are an army that I have always liked the look of, ever since they first appeared in the Warhammer Fantasy Battles coregame set where they faced off against the Bretonians. However I never painted any of the miniatures and actually only remember playing against them on a few occasions.

So decision made, a 1000 point Seraphon army it shall be. The new General’s Handbook 2018 will probably change some of the points values so by staying just below the maximum points I’ve set I’m hoping to still have a legal force after the launch of the new edition (not long now until I find out). My final list contains the following heroes and units:
– Skink Starseer;
– Skink Priest;
– Skink unit (10 models);
– Skink unit (10 models);
– Troglodon;
– Bastiladon;
– Ripperdactyl Riders (3 models).

As you will have noticed, it is a Skink army with not a single Saurus Warrior to be found.

The above image shows my progress after my first few evenings of painting and I have already started building and painting the remaining miniatures, that I aim to have ready in time for the Soul Wars launch weekend.

I’m not much of a painter (building/converting and playing the games are my hobby), problem is that I don’t like playing games with unpainted or proxy models so over the years I have developed a painting style that I am happy with and gets models onto the table in no time. I always start by using a spray to base coat the models in a colour that will be the core colour used to tie the army together. In this case Army Painter Uniform Grey. This is followed by adding details with basic light colours. For the seraphon I used Citadel Ceramite White for the scales, with Deathclaw Brown and Gehenna’s Gold for the weapons and armour. Many of the models have feathers for decoration and these got a coat of Calgar Blue. Once this was done I used the Army Painter Dip and literally dunked the models in it. Individually and under close scrutiny my miniatures leave much to be desired. On a battlefield and grouped together in units they serve their purpose and look the part.

Should I like the army enough then I will put the Stormcast Eternals on hold for a little while longer and concentrate on the Seraphon. A second Troglodon in a different pose sounds like a challenge I’m up for. If that becomes a reality I will be covering the conversion work in a future blog post.